List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Medieval Songbook as Emergent Genre; Chapter One. Paradigms: The Carmina Burana and the Libro de buen amor; Chapter Two. Producing Opaque Coherence: Lyric Presenceand Names; Chapter Three. Shifting Mediality: Visualizing Lyric Texts; Chapter Four. Cancioneros and the Art of the Songbook; Conclusion. Songbook Medievalisms; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
'Songbook' treats what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category 'poetry': that is, how vernacular songbooks of the 13th to 15th centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index
